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Yahoo API tryouts

Yahoo API Playground Most of the Yahoo API's deliver data in XML or JSON formats which is very helpful to end users. I was trying out various YAHOO! tools and found Yahoo GeoPlanet useful. The documentation is very detailed and helpful if you are developing something..  Let me give some examples.. If you want to get latitude and longtude of a place or reverse calculate it? Try these directly..  (Thanks to GeoPlanet API's)   http://where.yahooapis.com/geocode?q=19+Howard+Road,+Southampton,+Hampshire http://where.yahooapis.com/geocode?q=50.914716,-1.417612&gflags=R Details of Yahoo Geo tools  (GeoPlanet Guide) http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/guide/concepts.html http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/guide/api_docs.html Where On Earth Identifiers  (WOEID) Its a 32bit identifier, which is unique and non-repeated. This has a parent-child relationship to places, which makes it human understandable in the meantime useful for automated systems. The summary of all

Yahoo API's and developer network

I aways believed Sun Microsystems gave maximum benefit to the computing world. They developed a lot of technology and made it Open source. Now since Sun is under grip of Oracle, who should take its place? I believe Yahoo is slowly replacing Sun's footprint of donating technology to the world. I came across the developer network of Yahoo!. I can see most of their works are now Open source and very powerful. Take the case of YUI3. Its a marvellous library and framework for web developers. Just listing some of the best Yahoo Developer Tools YUI - User interface, Javascript and CSS library framework Mojito - Free Javascript MVC framework Placefiner - An excellent tool YQL - Yahoo Query language. A great console as well YSlow - Firefox add-on if you are site developer There were other quite few great ones Yahoo! answers was great, but got eclipsed by stackoverflow. Yahoo Messenger - got down due to google gmail plugin You could see all Yahoo Developer offerings here.. http